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pell grants expanded for millions. take a look at how many people by the year 2010/2011 school year, you had 9.3 million people received pell grants. and the size of the pell grant has also been raised from the average of $2,971 in the 2008/2009 school year to $3,833 now. what does governor romney want to do with pell grants? >> i want to make sure we keep the pell grant program growing and we'll have the lope program so people are able to afford school. >> so he has until now been pretty consistent in saying, and also the ryan budget, by the way, has cuts for things like this or cuts for education across the board. that's new to me. i want to make sure we keep our pell grant program growing. that is a new thing from governor romney. >> that does not include growth for pell grants. that was a new statement. >> some conservatives say all the money available for federal backstopping of education drives up tuition anyway. so there's that context around this debate as well. >> thank you, christine. >>> so big bird nowhere
pell grants expanded for millions. take a look at how many people by the year 2010/2011 school year, you had 9.3 million people received pell grants. and the size of the pell grant has also been raised from the average of $2,971 in the 2008/2009 school year to $3,833 now. what does governor romney want to do with pell grants? >> i want to make sure we keep the pell grant program growing and we'll have the lope program so people are able to afford school. >> so he has until now been...
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it's got funding for pell grants. people may disagree or agree, but the president believed it was important to avert layoffs of hundreds of thousands of teachers. it seems to me he got more done in the first two months of his term tan any president has for a long time. >> two points, i want to make sure we address both of them. one, i do want to talk about reauthorization of nclb, but jon just brought up the talk of race to the top and the investment of stimulus. marty, i'm curious where governor romney stands on those two. >> governor romney has consistently praised those parts of president obama's efforts in education where he agrees with what was done. and the one thing that he's consistently singled out are the aspects of race to the top, especially the promotion of caps or the elimination of caps on charter schools, the bringing down on data firewalls that prevent teachers and students from being linked that were sort of application criteria for the grant process, and he's also praised race to the top for stimula
it's got funding for pell grants. people may disagree or agree, but the president believed it was important to avert layoffs of hundreds of thousands of teachers. it seems to me he got more done in the first two months of his term tan any president has for a long time. >> two points, i want to make sure we address both of them. one, i do want to talk about reauthorization of nclb, but jon just brought up the talk of race to the top and the investment of stimulus. marty, i'm curious where...
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i think it's some who wouldn't and fit from pell. i think his proposal which would have of the federal role but in a problematic way. so if you any community or state and said we want to try this idea, they should try out ideas. we could get into a discussion about the viability, and try. i think that the idea of a federal government mandating that as a condition of receiving title i funds and i.d.e.a. funds, mandating that states have not only affordable funding but that states have state dollars, followed kids across district lines, to me is an overreach in terms of a one size fits all policy and i think that the idea of the $700 or $800 or $900 in title i funding support those efforts, leave kids short with a real cost of education are far more that's $900. >> one point. the idea that we can't lend money and the federal education budget to support competitive grant programs and create incentives without moving back core programs like title i and ida is just crazy. you may consider title ii formula fund the program but this is to p
i think it's some who wouldn't and fit from pell. i think his proposal which would have of the federal role but in a problematic way. so if you any community or state and said we want to try this idea, they should try out ideas. we could get into a discussion about the viability, and try. i think that the idea of a federal government mandating that as a condition of receiving title i funds and i.d.e.a. funds, mandating that states have not only affordable funding but that states have state...
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grants and lay out the plan -- i would say the language around refocusing pell grants on those that need it most to me i don't know what families getting killed don't need the focus away from. that is part of the record. >> on this question the president, the respect program that secretary duncan promoted and spoke about hiring 100,000 teachers but from the 2010 discretionary appropriations for education under the president based on the 2009 budget we are $64 billion for k-12. his proposal for 2013 is 69.8. in four years the president has increased spending and are 1% to 2% rate a year. meanwhile last summer, he championed maintaining the supersaid the on stafford, 3.7% which doesn't actually affect any graduates until the labor market of 2016-17 at the earliest and cost $6 billion a year. what is the process by which the president is the turning which of his priorities are getting funded and which are not? >> the process by which the president determines his priorities is look at the most important investments in kids and fundamentally significant difference with governor romney is
grants and lay out the plan -- i would say the language around refocusing pell grants on those that need it most to me i don't know what families getting killed don't need the focus away from. that is part of the record. >> on this question the president, the respect program that secretary duncan promoted and spoke about hiring 100,000 teachers but from the 2010 discretionary appropriations for education under the president based on the 2009 budget we are $64 billion for k-12. his...
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pelle grants, and we want to help all students. enrollments going up. that's a good thing. >> moderator: mrs. vilsack, 30 seconds to respond. vilsack: he voted for the ryan budget twice. it not only cut money for college students and makes it difficult for them to get an education, but he cut the legs out from under k-12 education as well and head start. as an educator of 36 years, this is of concern to me. i will be a champion for education. my education plan also calls for money for -- from reach to the top or race to the top to fund teacher education programs in small colleges like this one to help college students actually learn what it is to teach in small towns, and i'm really proud of that as well. >> moderator: thank you, mrs. vilsack. we have another question from the student body here at northwestern college. this is northwestern junior john deruth. what's your question? >> i'm curious your positions on gun control in lite of the shootings since the colorado tragedy? who is responsible, and what can be done to ensure a sa
pelle grants, and we want to help all students. enrollments going up. that's a good thing. >> moderator: mrs. vilsack, 30 seconds to respond. vilsack: he voted for the ryan budget twice. it not only cut money for college students and makes it difficult for them to get an education, but he cut the legs out from under k-12 education as well and head start. as an educator of 36 years, this is of concern to me. i will be a champion for education. my education plan also calls for money for --...
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there is a projection of what pell grant to do to increase over the year. the rise in budget tiles that down to make sure they are there for all students coming to the future, yet does not cut them. it says we want them to be solvent. that's a clear basis of the facts. i have supported paul grant along the way. . . . . we also want to thank our panelists and jennifer. thank you also to the public policy institute, and the staff of the cultural and civic center. the candidates will debate one more time this election season, the third and final debate on wednesday, october 10 at 7:00 wood university.oul the debate will air on wusa on october 12, friday at 7:00 p.m.. the debate is open to the public. we want to thank you tonight for watching. thank you for listening. thank you for being here. good night. [applause] >> when nations treat in trade in china has treated, i will do something that the president has not been able to do. and label them a currency manipulator. >> we have brought more trade cases against china in one term than the previous administratio
there is a projection of what pell grant to do to increase over the year. the rise in budget tiles that down to make sure they are there for all students coming to the future, yet does not cut them. it says we want them to be solvent. that's a clear basis of the facts. i have supported paul grant along the way. . . . . we also want to thank our panelists and jennifer. thank you also to the public policy institute, and the staff of the cultural and civic center. the candidates will debate one...
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for pell grants. host: he has been campaigning on a number of campuses. yet your generation will inherit a 16 trillion dollar debt. a lot of questions about medicare and medicaid in the future of the country. why do you support the president? guest: that is a great question. all students are very engaged in issues such as the deficit, because when you have students inheriting such a deficit it is extremely important we focus on our future and what the path going forward will be. we have two plans, and there is a clear choice. president obama and mitt romney have made that clear. the choice is whether we will move backward or forward. when we make these choices, we will have to focus on whether we will invoito invest in the midde class and education or millionaires and billionaires? that is extremely important when you look at mitt romney's tax plan. the only way you pay for that is either burdening the middle- class or raising the deficit. it is extremely important we focus on where we are investing.
for pell grants. host: he has been campaigning on a number of campuses. yet your generation will inherit a 16 trillion dollar debt. a lot of questions about medicare and medicaid in the future of the country. why do you support the president? guest: that is a great question. all students are very engaged in issues such as the deficit, because when you have students inheriting such a deficit it is extremely important we focus on our future and what the path going forward will be. we have two...
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i want to make sure we keep our pell grant program growing. we'll also have our loan program so that people are able to afford school, but the key thing is to make sure you can get a job when you get out of school. what's happened over the last four years has been very, very hard for america's young people. i want you to be able to get a job. i know what it takes to get this economy going. with half of college kids graduating this year, without a college -- excuse me -- without a job, and without a college-level job that's unacceptable. likewise, you got more and more debt. so more debt and less jobs. i'm going to change that. i know what it takes to create good jobs again. i know what it takes to make sure that you have the kind of opportunity you deserve. kids across this country are going to recognize we're bringing back an economy. it's not going to be like the last four years. the middle class has been crushed over last four years and jobs have been scarce. i'll bring them back. when do you graduate? 2014. when you come out in 2014, i pre
i want to make sure we keep our pell grant program growing. we'll also have our loan program so that people are able to afford school, but the key thing is to make sure you can get a job when you get out of school. what's happened over the last four years has been very, very hard for america's young people. i want you to be able to get a job. i know what it takes to get this economy going. with half of college kids graduating this year, without a college -- excuse me -- without a job, and...
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sheldon was mentioning pell grants before but there are expenditures targeted at preschool. here is the thing. of the one side there is this issue of any quality in outcomes. there is a very compelling body of research that links higher in quality -- any quality to diminished opportunity. there is a linkage between the economic divide and high levels of inequality and diminished opportunity for those in the bottom half. with out all this, growth is broadly shared enemies to the kind of party reduction that he talked about. once you introduce high levels into this model, a couple of things go wrong. g.d.p. and productivity growth are diverted from lower income families. middle incomes stagnate and party increases as it did in the business cycle expansion of the 2000's. poverty went up as the economy expanded. this reduces generational mobility. this generates a set of predictions. it predicts that income concentration plays up in the political rally. i feel very strongly about this. it worries me. by protecting the beneficiary of inequalities and blocking the policies that a
sheldon was mentioning pell grants before but there are expenditures targeted at preschool. here is the thing. of the one side there is this issue of any quality in outcomes. there is a very compelling body of research that links higher in quality -- any quality to diminished opportunity. there is a linkage between the economic divide and high levels of inequality and diminished opportunity for those in the bottom half. with out all this, growth is broadly shared enemies to the kind of party...
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. -- [applause] with the savings the congress and the president increased the pell grant over the next ten years and increased the tax credits to middle class families to help more people pay for college. what is going happen really according their own math if the republicans win, is thing they're going repeal this, raised cost of student loans, make them harder to pay, increase the dropout rates, reduce the pell grants and not fund the tax credit. that's the math. i will stand with barack obama and shelly berkeley and john degioia, i want to do. it [cheering and applause] [cheering and applause] [cheering and applause] i like this program. [cheering and applause] i will -- look, i didn't make this up. [laughter] i'm explaining stuff i understand now. so just one other thing. [inaudible] to the nevada and california line of the antisolar park. the biggest one in america. if you haven't seen it, you thought go sometime. three big towers 450 feet high. all these panels circle them. 2,000 american working people there. [cheering and applause] 2,000. [cheering and applause] a lot of women
. -- [applause] with the savings the congress and the president increased the pell grant over the next ten years and increased the tax credits to middle class families to help more people pay for college. what is going happen really according their own math if the republicans win, is thing they're going repeal this, raised cost of student loans, make them harder to pay, increase the dropout rates, reduce the pell grants and not fund the tax credit. that's the math. i will stand with barack...
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and the pell grants and medicare. a lot of them -- republicans on medicaid including middle class families that use medicaid with the nursing home care because they can't afford it otherwise. so, you know, it wasn't just talking about, you know, they talk about the people you're not just talking about the -- working at best. i had one woman recognized me today until the hardware store in the middle of all of this, i have a college education and can't find a job. i'm making $12 ,000 a year. and i'm on food stamps. i'm working hard to get off of it. i feel like i need. i have a lot of ante-dotes coming in like that from other people. but, you know, have the attitude that what other people say and, you know, talking about -- [inaudible] and romney saying this say the wealthy are doing fine, i don't they're not the wealthy, and then parts of it why do you want to lower their tax rates to 20%. everybody's tax rates like the middle class the working class americans 20% but anybody. he's saying it's not his plan the obama ca
and the pell grants and medicare. a lot of them -- republicans on medicaid including middle class families that use medicaid with the nursing home care because they can't afford it otherwise. so, you know, it wasn't just talking about, you know, they talk about the people you're not just talking about the -- working at best. i had one woman recognized me today until the hardware store in the middle of all of this, i have a college education and can't find a job. i'm making $12 ,000 a year. and...
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then he went into bigger systemic things, like talking about pell grants and the role of education and women getting toward equal pay and then bringing it to contraception and the ability to control reproductive health. he said my dream sentence, this is not just women's issues and family issues, these are economic issues. that's one of the smartest ways i heard it address. it may be pandering, but it brought a terrific answer. >> i think the rights of women are not addressed directly. i think we saw this very thing in the vice presidential debate where the candidates were asked about their beliefs about abortion but not necessarily about theoretically what do you believe the rights of women should be, in particular with terminating a pregnancy or not. so i think that we're seeing the interest of women being, as my political theer or lists would say, subverted. first to men in terms of being in charge of most of the state legislatures, to medical professionals in many instances, and second if you read the rnc platform and the plank on aborti abortion, to fetuses. there's a lot of discu
then he went into bigger systemic things, like talking about pell grants and the role of education and women getting toward equal pay and then bringing it to contraception and the ability to control reproductive health. he said my dream sentence, this is not just women's issues and family issues, these are economic issues. that's one of the smartest ways i heard it address. it may be pandering, but it brought a terrific answer. >> i think the rights of women are not addressed directly. i...
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and even it's harder to understand, do away with pell grants, do away with all federally backed student loans. he said private banks should do it. i don't know very many private banks that will lend money to a 17 year old. 300,000 young people in missouri are attending college as a federally backed student loan or pell grant is helping them. that was me. i had a federally backed student loan but i couldn't have gotten through law school without a. i had to wait tables in addition to the loan. it took me eight years to pay it back, but i pay back every time, emotion people do. we have to leave that door of opportunity open. it is not third stage of cancer. the federal governments involved in public education is important for our country. this is not about bureaucracy. it's about whether or not the middle-class survives. it is a huge difference between congressman akin and me. thank you i'd like to have -- >> moderator: you have 45 seconds. akin: thank you. i think this is a great illustration of the principal i was just talking about. i've talked about maybe because the fact that we are
and even it's harder to understand, do away with pell grants, do away with all federally backed student loans. he said private banks should do it. i don't know very many private banks that will lend money to a 17 year old. 300,000 young people in missouri are attending college as a federally backed student loan or pell grant is helping them. that was me. i had a federally backed student loan but i couldn't have gotten through law school without a. i had to wait tables in addition to the loan....
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a fairly radical conservative guy who went to pell he will advantage list pat robertson's university where he wrote his graduate thesis saying the government should use public policy to punish cohabitaters, homosexuals and fornicators. oh, my. govern mcdonnell took office in 2010 and pulled the legislature into republican territory with him. early this year that republican legislature came up with a fertilized egg as person bill. a bill that would ban all abortion, it would likely also ban hormonal contraception in virginia and it would ban in vitro fertilization. governor mcdonnell said he would take a look at that bill if it did end up coming to his desk. the day the bill was passed through a committee, this is what the lobby of the hearing room looked like. the area around the personhood bill was full of protesters. that was a standing-room only type of gig. there were protesters outside as well. virginia republicans also came out with their forced vaginal probe ultrasound bill this year which governor mcdonnell initially through his full support behind. hundreds of protesters tur
a fairly radical conservative guy who went to pell he will advantage list pat robertson's university where he wrote his graduate thesis saying the government should use public policy to punish cohabitaters, homosexuals and fornicators. oh, my. govern mcdonnell took office in 2010 and pulled the legislature into republican territory with him. early this year that republican legislature came up with a fertilized egg as person bill. a bill that would ban all abortion, it would likely also ban...
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i want to make sure we keep our pell grant program growing. we're also going to have our loan program, so that people are able to afford school. but the key thing is to make sure you can get a job when you get out of school. and what's happened over the last four years has been very, very hard for america's young people. i want you to be able to get a job. i know what it takes to get this economy going. with half of college kids graduating this year without a college -- excuse me, without a job. and without a college level job, that's just unacceptable. and likewise you've got more and more debt on your back. so more debt and less jobs. i'm going to change that. i know what it takes to create good jobs again. i know what it takes to make sure that you have the kind of opportunity you deserve. and kids across this country are going to recognize, we're bringing back an economy. it's not going to be like the last four years. the middle-class has been crushed over the last four years, and jobs have been too scarce. i know what it takes to bring th
i want to make sure we keep our pell grant program growing. we're also going to have our loan program, so that people are able to afford school. but the key thing is to make sure you can get a job when you get out of school. and what's happened over the last four years has been very, very hard for america's young people. i want you to be able to get a job. i know what it takes to get this economy going. with half of college kids graduating this year without a college -- excuse me, without a...
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we can't afford more federally subsidized student loans and pell grants. i wish i could say we will give you more. a debt of $16 trillion is bearing down on us. and as governor johnson said, we could well be like germany after world war i. i do not support this, and the person that asked the question on the internet is not going to like it, but we can't afford more pell grants and federally subsidized student loans. we have to balance the budget and decline the debt. [applause] >> anybody have a rebuttal? >> free comes with a cost. [applause] free, very simply is spending more money than what you take in. free is accumulating more than the $16 trillion in debt that we currently have. free has gotten us to the point where we are going to experience a monetary collapse in this country due to the fact that we continue to borrow and print more money than we take in. free, the federal reserve system in this tun country, the treasury prints money. they give it to the federal reserve. the federal reserve gives it to the bank at zero percent. do they give that to
we can't afford more federally subsidized student loans and pell grants. i wish i could say we will give you more. a debt of $16 trillion is bearing down on us. and as governor johnson said, we could well be like germany after world war i. i do not support this, and the person that asked the question on the internet is not going to like it, but we can't afford more pell grants and federally subsidized student loans. we have to balance the budget and decline the debt. [applause] >> anybody...
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and they all have a tremendous pell grant to pay back. they are the ones you need bailing out because they are our future. and we are our third bailout of wall street. host: we will show you a little bit about what gary johnson and others had to say during the third party debate. but i am just wondering, why you have been holding out from supporting one of the two party candidates? caller: i was just waiting for one of them to say something to really inspired me. and to get me excited and a revved up, to get me to march out into the street and said this is the guy i want to run my country. host: gary johnson did that for you? caller: yes. mitt romney was who i was leaning towards. once i listened to those people, i agreed. the two parties have morphed to gather. and one or the ever, it is not going to make that much difference. host: ok. i want to show others in case they missed it, and little but from that a third-party presidential debate. here is virgil goode good and gary johnson. [video clip] >> jobs in america for american citizens
and they all have a tremendous pell grant to pay back. they are the ones you need bailing out because they are our future. and we are our third bailout of wall street. host: we will show you a little bit about what gary johnson and others had to say during the third party debate. but i am just wondering, why you have been holding out from supporting one of the two party candidates? caller: i was just waiting for one of them to say something to really inspired me. and to get me excited and a...
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he offered excuses for the dictatorship, rather than in a prince pelled, civil way, saying we stand with the oppressed, not with the oppressor. i believe that mitt romney will speak out boldly and effectively on behalf of -- or against human right abuses. >> shannon: the president says he has been tough on china. let's play a little bit of what he had to say. >> when he talks about getting tough on china, keep in mind that governor romney invested in companies that were pioneers of outsourcing to china and is currently investing in countries -- in companies that are building surveillance equipment for china to spy on its own folks. that's -- governor, you are the last person who is going to get tough on china. >> shannon: the president says they have taken a high number of trade cases to the world health organization. >> they have taken some. but the most unfair trading practice of all -- and this should be investigated -- and they have not -- the exploitation of labor. if you pay people next to nothing, and in many case, the chinese people are fighting against this, incurring tort and y
he offered excuses for the dictatorship, rather than in a prince pelled, civil way, saying we stand with the oppressed, not with the oppressor. i believe that mitt romney will speak out boldly and effectively on behalf of -- or against human right abuses. >> shannon: the president says he has been tough on china. let's play a little bit of what he had to say. >> when he talks about getting tough on china, keep in mind that governor romney invested in companies that were pioneers of...
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he will double pell grants so we can invest in american kids so education increase. megyn: but the question is whether the things he wants to do -- you are mentioning things and the question is whether they can pass, right? it's great to have your laundry list as each candidate does. but what can get passed so things will turn around. >> things that are going to get passed are things that will appeal to a wide range of people that will come together despite their individual differences to have the kind of commonality of helping the country as a whole. nothing he mentioned in that laundry list of what david axlerod mentioned was anything you can get bipartisan support for. green energy has been a scandal. it hasn't been a success. >> you are telling me that how we are going to create more jobs? you have got to get in bed with small business and help business owners. giving tax incentives simply to hire, you have got to give them reasons to produce their operations. that helps the average family get back on top. megyn: we were told a while back the president believes h
he will double pell grants so we can invest in american kids so education increase. megyn: but the question is whether the things he wants to do -- you are mentioning things and the question is whether they can pass, right? it's great to have your laundry list as each candidate does. but what can get passed so things will turn around. >> things that are going to get passed are things that will appeal to a wide range of people that will come together despite their individual differences to...
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my opponent congressman pence talks about affordability and congress that voted against the pell grant. >> moderator: thank you mr. gregg. mr. boneham. boneham: my father taught for 20 years and my mother was a teacher. i've been a teacher of life for years. figuring out how we can make school more affordable without without -- figuring out how we can streamline our state schools, how we can make sure that any of our students in indiana better able to go and pass the entrance tests test can go through indiana and afford it. able to bring into our high schools some of our first-year college classes that we don't have so many students taking those remedial classes when they are in their first year. and i want to be able to work with our colleges and our state to bring a more streamlined system, to bring that 21st century and be able to use the internet, and to use what we have to just help cut the dollars. >> moderator: thank you mr. boneham. mr. pence a 30-second rebuttal. pence: these are tough budget times and we stand out across the country but now we have a record budget surplus and
my opponent congressman pence talks about affordability and congress that voted against the pell grant. >> moderator: thank you mr. gregg. mr. boneham. boneham: my father taught for 20 years and my mother was a teacher. i've been a teacher of life for years. figuring out how we can make school more affordable without without -- figuring out how we can streamline our state schools, how we can make sure that any of our students in indiana better able to go and pass the entrance tests test...
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he says there are parts of the stimulus like pell grant, specific aspects of the stimulus that the obama administration has said are positively affected could struggling african americans. mitt romney disagrees with stimulus. so, when challenged, the obama administration will often point to these things. there will never say we prevented this legislation so that we could help black people. that is not something you would ever say. why would a day. -- why would they? but the things that they have done have disproportionately help black people and i think black people appreciate that. host: i want to show this headline from the pew research center back in 2009. bisecting the 2009 electorate, black women had the highest voter turnout rate in november's election, a first. and election history. what is your prediction for that this time around? both candidates are trying to court to female voters. well black females turned out for president obama and large numbers? to my unscientific prediction is yes, based on the 2008 numbers and based on the the fervor with which obama and romney are tryin
he says there are parts of the stimulus like pell grant, specific aspects of the stimulus that the obama administration has said are positively affected could struggling african americans. mitt romney disagrees with stimulus. so, when challenged, the obama administration will often point to these things. there will never say we prevented this legislation so that we could help black people. that is not something you would ever say. why would a day. -- why would they? but the things that they...
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but i am not going to support ideas like the right and budget which my opponent does that would cut pell grant education. we need more people going to for your degrees. we need them as well but we need to make college more affordable and i think this is a key difference. >> moderator: mitt romney says he likes big bird but he would fire him. federal funding for public broadcasting is an expense we can live without. critics say it misses the point because funding for public broadcasting is so small it has a large return on investment in terms of education. cellist now as you are being watched and listened to on public television and radio stations where you stand on funding for public broadcasting is it a waste or with? >> one of the reasons we wanted to do this is because of what public television represents, and the fact this is free to be broadcast many times, not one might but many times between now and the election. we like that about public broadcasting. i should take an opportunity. my mom is here tonight and i know that she's grimacing a little bit because it's hard to hear all of
but i am not going to support ideas like the right and budget which my opponent does that would cut pell grant education. we need more people going to for your degrees. we need them as well but we need to make college more affordable and i think this is a key difference. >> moderator: mitt romney says he likes big bird but he would fire him. federal funding for public broadcasting is an expense we can live without. critics say it misses the point because funding for public broadcasting is...
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without the belief that one teacher had in me and pell grants i wouldn't be standing here before you today. that's why i fought for funding for thousands of teachers to stay in the classroom teaching our kids and make sure college is more affordable by expanding pell grants and making sure loan enter rates were low. i am like many of the people in new jersey who work hard every day. but the middle class is under attack and that's why i fight back in the united states senate to create good jobs, good healthcare, a quality education and a retirement we all deserve. >> when all is said and done, your campaign seemed to have slid into a familiar floyd which is you're portraying your opponents in ways we have heard time and time again. you're portrayed as a friend of the rich as somebody who will make middle class pay more because the rich shouldn't have any sort of implications of their taxes changes. >> you are portrayed as a techs and spend liberal. tell me specifically what one thing about your opponent makes him less qualified than you to serve in the u.s. senate. >> you go first. >>
without the belief that one teacher had in me and pell grants i wouldn't be standing here before you today. that's why i fought for funding for thousands of teachers to stay in the classroom teaching our kids and make sure college is more affordable by expanding pell grants and making sure loan enter rates were low. i am like many of the people in new jersey who work hard every day. but the middle class is under attack and that's why i fight back in the united states senate to create good jobs,...
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. >> the problem is paul ryan proposed to cut pell grants. and the problem is mitt romney when he was governor he raised tuition for those same college kids. >> my advice is we all know about the meningitis outbreak. thousands may have been infected. and the fda right now has more regulatory authority over chemical plants, drug makers in china than these compound makers -- i'm just getting familiar with this, but these pharmacies that can create drugs and make them more affordable. we need the fda to have more regulatory authority over these compound makers. and congress has to step in and have oversight. if the fda has authority and they didn't enforce it, fine. look into it. but if they don't have it, they need to get it. it's ridiculous. in 2012 we're not china, we're not somalia, people shouldn't be dying when they get a steroid shot. we need regulations that prevent people in america from dying. >> but the pharmaceutical industry already bought congress. so good luck. >> good point. campaign finance. ana. >> my unsolicited advice is for
. >> the problem is paul ryan proposed to cut pell grants. and the problem is mitt romney when he was governor he raised tuition for those same college kids. >> my advice is we all know about the meningitis outbreak. thousands may have been infected. and the fda right now has more regulatory authority over chemical plants, drug makers in china than these compound makers -- i'm just getting familiar with this, but these pharmacies that can create drugs and make them more affordable....
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he said that anyone who is on entitlements, a pell grant, trying to go to college to better themselves, anyone who uses of food stamps because they are in between jobs, people who are on medicare, medicaid. i do not know if you use any of those responsibly. they are all part of the mooching society. people are free to say we should get rid of the social safety net and not have these programs. we can have that debate in this country. that is a fine debate to have. mitt romney lumped all of these people together. your brother who is irresponsible with someone who is on veterans' assistance. that is where a lot of people took offense. host: the caller implied you have an agenda. here is a tweet from one of our viewers, anton. he says, "but david corn remains a leftist shill for the democrat party." guest: you can look back at what i have done over the year. i have been critic of democrats as well. i did work for a "mother jones," which is a progressive magazine. we don't hide anything about that. you will have tucker carlson on from a conservative magazine. we do exist in this world. go t
he said that anyone who is on entitlements, a pell grant, trying to go to college to better themselves, anyone who uses of food stamps because they are in between jobs, people who are on medicare, medicaid. i do not know if you use any of those responsibly. they are all part of the mooching society. people are free to say we should get rid of the social safety net and not have these programs. we can have that debate in this country. that is a fine debate to have. mitt romney lumped all of these...
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he doubled down on investment getting to 10 million students served by the pell grants averting layoffs in the stimulus and he's driven the reform a significant we of the same time. looking to fund things that are working, demonstrating results and instead of a one-size-fits-all approach he's instead given incentives for the states and communities to do even more aggressive reform as they want to drive the transformational change for kids and contrasts are great and we will get into the contest over the coming hour. >> terrific, thanks very much. let's get started. jon, no child left behind is on everybody's mind. what two things that no child left behind get right and what things degette rall? >> no child left behind did some things right. no child left behind helped shine a spotlight on achievement gaps across the country for low-income kids of color and brought the nation's get the seats and community attention to those gaps in a way that hasn't been done at a national scale before it was building on a lot of reforms across the country built on the clinton work but that was important
he doubled down on investment getting to 10 million students served by the pell grants averting layoffs in the stimulus and he's driven the reform a significant we of the same time. looking to fund things that are working, demonstrating results and instead of a one-size-fits-all approach he's instead given incentives for the states and communities to do even more aggressive reform as they want to drive the transformational change for kids and contrasts are great and we will get into the contest...
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pell grants is one way we can do that. >> it is time for closing statements. we flipped a coin to determine the order. congresswoman baldwin chose to go last. >> thank you very much. thank you for the audience. it has been a spirited debate. our country has some serious problems. we are $16 trillion in debt, $10 trillion of that is while my opponent has been in congress. we are over the gross national product, which means that we are placed in a category with other countries like spain, like greece. i want to change that. i am running, ladies and gentlemen, because i have three great children and grandchildren. i am running because of them, but more importantly your children and grandchildren. we have always promised children and grandchildren and america that they will inherit a country that a stronger and fairer and safer. we can no longer say that. a baby born right now a today is $51,000 in debt. so the debt was accumulated in the last 10 years. in the last four years, that has gone up by $5.50 trillion the people in congress have not even passed a budget
pell grants is one way we can do that. >> it is time for closing statements. we flipped a coin to determine the order. congresswoman baldwin chose to go last. >> thank you very much. thank you for the audience. it has been a spirited debate. our country has some serious problems. we are $16 trillion in debt, $10 trillion of that is while my opponent has been in congress. we are over the gross national product, which means that we are placed in a category with other countries like...
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they cut pell grants for working class families. instead of signing a pledge as they have including the nominees to a guy name grover there is actually a pledge signed that says we will not raise one penny in taxes even for people who are making millions of dollars who don't need the tax cut and are not even asking for it. i come from a wellingthi little state of delaware. i found out in my years in the senate wellingthi people are just as patriot as poor people and it's time they step up. instead of signing a pledge to grover they should sign a pledge to the middle class saying we're going to give you a level playing field. that's what we're going to do. ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you what we're going to do. on education we're going to under education and maintain those tax cuts to help your kids get to college, we're going to recruit math and sms teachers so we remain the best in the world. we're going to insist on higher standards. and because we believe as my mother used to say joy children become what you expect of them.
they cut pell grants for working class families. instead of signing a pledge as they have including the nominees to a guy name grover there is actually a pledge signed that says we will not raise one penny in taxes even for people who are making millions of dollars who don't need the tax cut and are not even asking for it. i come from a wellingthi little state of delaware. i found out in my years in the senate wellingthi people are just as patriot as poor people and it's time they step up....
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50s and we ended up on a school lunch and breakfast programs and food stamps and thank god for the pell grants that were there for me that allowed me to go to college. programs of mr. walsh called free handouts. if you talk about what has affected me, it's that hard work and personal responsibility and struggle to make something. >> moderator: with that we have to bring this to an end but thank you very much, tammy duckworth and congressman joe walsh for being here tonight, and for being so congenial to each other. and our thanks to the city club of chicago for its support of this and all of the candidates in this election season. >> president obama and joe biden will be speaking sporty vehicle shortly to supporters at a campaign rally. this is their first appearance at an ohio campaign event in this election cycle. according to the latest politics polling average, president obama holds a 2% lead in the state of ohio. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> some other election program notes coming up shortly on c-span. mitt romney and his running mate paul ryan will be holdin
50s and we ended up on a school lunch and breakfast programs and food stamps and thank god for the pell grants that were there for me that allowed me to go to college. programs of mr. walsh called free handouts. if you talk about what has affected me, it's that hard work and personal responsibility and struggle to make something. >> moderator: with that we have to bring this to an end but thank you very much, tammy duckworth and congressman joe walsh for being here tonight, and for being...
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out the college students who are all in debt and can't get jobs, and they all have this tremendous pell grant to pay back. and he said they're the ones that need bailing out because they're our future. and we're on our third bailout of wall street. >> host: yeah, pamela, we'll show a little bit of what gary johnson and the other third party candidates had to say at that debate in case others were not watching that before we began the "washington journal" this morning. but i'm just wondering why you've been holding out from supporting one of the two party candidates. >> caller: i was just waiting for one of them to say something that really inspired me and to get me excited, get me revved up, get me to march out in the streets and say this is the guy i want to run my country. >> host: and so gary johnson did that for you this morning? >> caller: yes. >> host: all right. >> caller: romney was who i was leaning towards, but once i listen to these people, i agree. the two parties have morphed together, and, you know, one or the other, it's not really going to make that much difference. >> h
out the college students who are all in debt and can't get jobs, and they all have this tremendous pell grant to pay back. and he said they're the ones that need bailing out because they're our future. and we're on our third bailout of wall street. >> host: yeah, pamela, we'll show a little bit of what gary johnson and the other third party candidates had to say at that debate in case others were not watching that before we began the "washington journal" this morning. but i'm...
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pell grants is one way we can do that. >> it is time for closing statements. we flipped a coin to determine the order. congresswoman baldwin chose to go last. >> thank you very much. thank you for the audience. it has been a spirited debate. our country has some serious problems. we are $16 trillion in debt, $10 trillion of that is while my opponent has been in congress. we are over the gross national product, which means that we are placed in a category with other countries like spain, like greece. i want to change that. i am running, ladies and gentlemen, because i have three great children and grandchildren. i am running because of them, but more importantly, your children and grandchildren. we have always promised children and grandchildren and america that they will inherit a country that is stronger and fairer and safer. we can no longer say that. a baby born right now today is $51,000 in debt. so the debt was accumulated in the last 10 years. in the last four years, that has gone up by $5.50 trillion. the people in congress have not even passed a budget
pell grants is one way we can do that. >> it is time for closing statements. we flipped a coin to determine the order. congresswoman baldwin chose to go last. >> thank you very much. thank you for the audience. it has been a spirited debate. our country has some serious problems. we are $16 trillion in debt, $10 trillion of that is while my opponent has been in congress. we are over the gross national product, which means that we are placed in a category with other countries like...